Tuesday, 10 April 2018

YANKEV SIGAL

YANKEV
SIGAL

He was a publicist and agronomist
who taught at the Jewish agricultural institute in Novi Poltava, Nikolayev district,
Ukraine.His articles and correspondence
pieces often appeared in the press.He was
a member of the editorial board of the Kharkov journal Bahershn di tekhnik fun der sotsyalistisher landvirshaftlekher
produktsye (Mastering the technique of socialist agricultural production),
and he authored books dedicated to issues of agronomy.His books include: Vi kemft men mit der trikenish (How to fight drought) (Moscow,
1925), 16 pp.; Tsum dritn bolshevistishn
friling (The third Bolshevik spring) (Kharkov-Kiev, 1932); Di kolvirt-brigade, loyt der derfarung funem
2tn bolshevistishn farzey (The collective farm brigade, according to the
experience of the second Bolshevik sowing) (Moscow, 1932), 39 pp.; Der kolvirt vintertsayt (Winter on the
collective farm) (Moscow, 1932); Der
zey-farker in kamf far a hoykher geretenish (Crop rotation in the struggle
for a high yield).